Lion Air
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| Founded | 1999 | |||
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| Frequent-flyer program | Lion Passport | |||
| Airport lounge | Lion King Lounge | |||
| Subsidiaries | Wings Air | |||
| Fleet size | 75 | |||
| Destinations | 60 | |||
| Company slogan | We make people fly | |||
| Headquarters | Jakarta, Indonesia | |||
| Key people | Rusdi Kirana (CEO) | |||
| Website | lionair.co.id | |||
PT Lion Mentari Airlines, operating as Lion Air, is Indonesia’s largest privately-run airline.[1] Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, Lion Air flies to cities within Indonesia and to Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. Its main base is Soekarno-Hatta International Airport, Jakarta.[2] It operates scheduled passenger services on an extensive network from Jakarta to 56 destinations (as of July 2010).
Along with many other Indonesian carriers, Lion Air (including its Wings Air subsidiary) is on the list of air carriers banned in the European Union due to safety concerns as of February 2012. The airline has applied multiple times for membership in The International Air Transport Association (IATA), but it has been denied due to several safety concerns.[3]
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[edit] History
The airline was established in October 1999 and started operations on June 30, 2000, when it began scheduled passenger services between Jakarta and Pontianak using a leased Boeing 737-200. It is owned by Rusdi Kirana and family.[2] The airline is also planning to join IATA and therefore hoping to become the second IATA Indonesian member carrier after Garuda Indonesia. Lion Air failed, in early 2011, the initial IATA assessments for membership due to safety concerns.
Starting February 2010, Lion Air increased the number of flights to Jeddah to five times weekly. This route is being served by two Boeing 747-400 with 496 seats.[4]
Aviation Week has reported that Lion Air is planning to establish a joint-venture with Malaysian regional carrier Berjaya Air, in order to create a Malaysian subsidiary. Should the plan materialize, it will expand the Lion Air business horizon beyond Malaysia by capitalizing on its Indonesian partner’s experience and ‘economies of scale’ in the aviation services industry with a large fleet of aircraft and an expansive reach of destinations,according to them.[5] This will be their second attempt to create a foreign subsidiary after the failed attempt of creating Lion Air Australia. However, the plan was later scrapped, citing disagreement between two sides.
From 19 July 2011, Lion Air has grounded 13 planes due to sanction caused by bad on-time performance (OTP) until Lion Air can fulfill at least 80 percent of OTP. The transportation ministry recorded that Lion Air's OTP of 66.45 percent was the worst of six airlines in an assessment conducted from January to April 2011 at 24 airports nationwide.[6][7]
On 18 November 2011, the airline jointly announced with Boeing for a record-setting order of 201 Boeing 737 Max and 29 Boeing 737-900ER planes setting the record for the world's biggest single order of 230 planes for a commercial airline worth $21.7 billion.[8]
In January 2012, the Transportation Ministry says that it sanctioned Lion Air because some of its pilots and crew members were found in recent months to be in possession of crystal methamphetamine. Lion Air has been reprimanded and the licenses of the pilots and crew have been revoked. In early 2011 a crew member was arrested by Jakarta Police for possessing crystal meth; in late 2011 Muhammad Nasri along with two other co-pilots were arrested at a party in Tangerang; and in early 2012 a pilot was caught in possession of crystal meth in Makassar.[9] On 4 February 2012, another pilot of Lion Air was arrested following an positive urinalysis test for use of methamphetamine, although he was scheduled to fly on Surabaya-Makassar-Balikpapan-Surabaya flight hours later.[10] In early February 2012, a former airline stewardess who resigned in 2008 received threats after claiming that most pilots were regular drug users. The threats came from Lion Air employees by SMS, although she did not specifically mention Lion Air in her television remarks.[11]
[edit] Destinations
Lion Air serves 60 destinations, 55 domestic and 4 international (as of July 2011).
[edit] Fleet
[edit] Current fleet
As of 28 February 2012, the Lion Air fleet consists of the following aircraft with an average age of 6.1 years:[1][12]
| Aircraft | In Service | Orders | Passengers | Notes | ||||||
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| B | E | Total | ||||||||
| Boeing 737-300 | 2 | — | 0 | 148 | 148 | Exit from service in 2014.[citation needed] | ||||
| Boeing 737-400 | 8 | — | 8 | 150 | 158[1] | Exit from service in 2017.[citation needed] | ||||
| Boeing 737-800 | — | 12 | 0 | 189 | 189 | Orders converted from -900ER[citation needed] | ||||
| Boeing 737-900ER | 60 | 135 | 10 | 210 | 220 | Launch Customer of 737-900ER series | ||||
| Boeing 737 MAX 9 | — | 201 | TBA | Launch customer for -9 variant[13] | ||||||
| Boeing 747-400 | 2 | — | 22 | 484 | 496 | |||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 1 | — | ||||||||
| McDonnell Douglas MD-90-30 | 3 | — | 8 | 153 | 161[1] | Exit from service in 2013.[citation needed] | ||||
| Total | 75 | 349 | ||||||||
[edit] Orders
Lion Air was the launch customer for the largest variant of the Boeing 737, the 737-900ER, which it placed an order for in 2005. On 26 May 2005, Lion Air signed a preliminary agreement with Boeing for the purchase of up to 60 Boeing 737 Next Generation aircraft, valued at $3.9 billion at list prices. Lion Air confirmed their order in July 2005 and became the launch customer for the Boeing 737-900ER with firm orders for 30 aircraft and options for 30 more, which were later converted into firm orders. The -900ER can carry up to 215 passengers in a single-class layout, and is powered by CFM56-7B turbofan engines. On 27 April 2007, Boeing delivered the first 737-900ER to Lion Air. The aircraft was delivered in a special dual-paint scheme that combines Lion Air's logo on its vertical stabilizer and the Boeing "Dreamliner" livery on the fuselage.
Lion Air set a record when it placed an order for 230 aircraft from Boeing, making this the largest order in terms of aircraft ordered as well the cost of the order. In November 2011, Lion Air and Boeing announced that the airline planned to buy 29 737-900ER and 201 737 MAX aircraft, with options for 150 more, valued at $21.7 billion at the time.[8] A firm order was signed on 14 February 2012, with the 737 MAX aircraft identified as 737 MAX 9s, making Lion Air the launch customer for that variant.[14] By the time of the signing, the order's value had risen to $22.4 billion at list prices, the largest aircraft order in history.[14] Additionally, the engines for the -900ERs, CFM 56-7s, cost about $580 million and the engines for the MAXs, CFM LEAP-1Bs, cost about $4.8 billion.[14] Deliveries of the -900ERs are to start in 2016, with the MAXs to follow in 2017.[14]
[edit] Retired fleet
| Aircraft | Total |
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| Saab 2000 | 2 |
| Boeing 737-200 | 2 |
| McDonnell Douglas MD-82 | 22 |
| Yakovlev Yak-42[15] | 1 |
[edit] Private jet business
In early 2012, the Transportation Ministry said that the airline was processing an Air Operator Certificate (AOC) for their private business jets. Private-jet services will be launched in the third quarter of 2012 with 4 of nine-seater jets Hawker 900 XP. The aim is to serve clients from the country's mining industry and will compete with Susi Air and Royal Jet.[16]
[edit] Incidents and accidents
- On 14 January 2002, Lion Air Flight 386, a Boeing 737-200 crashed on take-off and was written off; no one was killed.
- On 30 November 2004, Lion Air Flight 538, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed in Surakarta, killing 25 people. This is the airline's first and only fatal accident as of January 2012.[17]
- On 4 March 2006, Lion Air Flight 8987, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82, crashed after landing at Juanda International Airport.[18] Reverse thrust was used during landing, although the left thrust reverser was stated to be out of service.[18] This caused the aircraft to veer to the right and skid off the runway, coming to rest about 7,000 feet (2,100 m) from the approach end of the runway.[18] No-one was killed but the aircraft was badly damaged.[18]
- On 24 December 2006, Lion Air Flight 792, a Boeing 737-400, landed with an incorrect flap configuration and was not aligned with the runway.[19] The plane landed hard and skidded along the runway causing the right main landing gear to detach, the left gear to protrude through the wing and some of the aircraft fuselage to be wrinkled.[19] No one was killed and the aircraft was written off.[19]
- On 2 November 2010, Lion Air Flight 712, a Boeing 737-400 (registration PK-LIQ) overran the runway on landing at Supadio Airport, Pontianak, coming to rest on its belly and sustaining damage to its nose gear. All 174 passengers and crew evacuated by the emergency slides, with few injuries reported.[20]
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d Our Fleet Lion Air. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ a b "Directory: World Airlines". Flight International: p. 106. 2007-04-03.
- ^ “Rutiköyhät lentoyhtiöt ostavat lisää lentokoneita” (‘Miserably poor airlines buy more and more aircraft’), Suomen kuvalehti, no. 48/2011 (2 December), p.14–15.
- ^ Lion Air adds extra flights to Jeddah
- ^ Lion Air Establishing LCC in Malaysia
- ^ Lion Air Should Grounded 13 Planes
- ^ "Lion, Batavia pledge to improve performance". The Jakarta Post. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/08/08/lion-batavia-pledge-improve-performance.html. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ^ a b "Boeing sets record with $22 billion order". CNN Money. 17 November 2011. http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/17/news/companies/boeing_order/index.htm. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ "Lion air sanctioned over pilots with crystal meth". January 11, 2012. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/01/11/lion-air-sanctioned-over-pilots-with-crystal-meth.html.
- ^ "Lagi, Pilot Lion Air Nyabu Ditangkap BNN". February 4, 2012. http://www.mediaindonesia.com/read/2012/02/04/296223/289/101/Lagi-Pilot-Lion-Air-Nyabu-Ditangkap-BNN-.
- ^ "As Lion Air defends rules, ex-stewardess receives threats". February 9, 2012. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/09/as-lion-air-defends-rules-ex-stewardess-receives-threats.html.
- ^ Lion Airlines Fleet Details and History PlaneSpotters.net. Retrieved 29 December 2011.
- ^ "Boeing, Lion Air Finalize Historic Order for up to 380 737s". Boeing.mediaroom.com. 2012-02-14. http://boeing.mediaroom.com/index.php?s=43&item=2129. Retrieved 2012-02-17.
- ^ a b c d "Lion Air Firms Up Boeing Order". Aviation International News. 14 February 2012. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. http://www.webcitation.org/65To3hdLj. Retrieved 15 February 2012.
- ^ Airliners.net
- ^ "Lion Air set to buy Hawker jets for private services". February 10, 2012. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2012/02/10/lion-air-set-buy-hawker-jets-private-services.html.
- ^ "Accident: Fatal Accident in 2004". The Jakarta Post. http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/11/18/indonesias-lion-air-rises-obscurity.html. Retrieved 22 November 2011.
- ^ a b c d "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. Archived from the original on 15 February 2012. http://www.webcitation.org/65U9bX4vW. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ a b c "Accident description". Aviation Safety Network. http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20061224-0. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ Hradecky, Simon. "Accident: Lionair B734 at Pontianak on Nov 2nd 2010, overran runway on landing". Aviation Herald. http://avherald.com/h?article=432fa0b7&opt=0. Retrieved 2 November 2010.
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